At Mobialia the lasts weeks I was involved on the development of a social app using , among other social networks APIs, the facebook API. For me it was easier to implement Twitter API access using only the signpost library,…
Android has two kinds of accuracy on location: This location methods can be enabled or disabled by the user on the preferences or with some widgets. Initially on our apps we used only one LocationProvider with “Fine” accuracy: As the…
This week I was speaking at LabAndroid, a spanish initiative about Android devices, apps and development. I developed a special app for this event called “Wikiplaces” and I made the code avaiable as open source on Google Code. This app…
One of the most common errors that I found developing Android Apps is the “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Bitmap Size Exceeds VM Budget” error. I found this error frecuently on activities using lots of bitmaps after changing orientation: the Activity is destroyed, created…
One of the first things that you can notice after buying an android phone is the great amount of mobile applications (apps) that you can download from the Android Market, but searching for a specific app can be very frustating,…
I played many years with MythTV and XMBC, and now on our new home and after buying a TV, I finally decided to switch to XBMC. I will explain all my choices for those of you who want to build…
As many of you know, this year I’m involved on Android with my project Mobialia. On February I was on the Android Developer Lab at Madrid and today I returned for the Google DevFest. The event started with Dave Burke…
Chess engine development is one of the most brain-crushing activities I’ve been involved on the last years. Last nigths I was working again on my Carballo Chess Engine with some advances. First of all I decided to leave Negamax and…
Jim Ablett has published a packaged executable for my Carballo chess engine. He also made a pretty logo for it, shown here. Check his page to download executables for Carballo and a lot of other chess engines: Jim Ablett’s Winboard…
Mañá vou facer unha presentación de Android e organizar un pequeno workshop na SobrosoParty (). Tamén falarei do meu novo proxecto Mobialia e das aplicacións para Android que teño feitas. A presentación de mañá se pode descargar no seguinte enlace:
